Market · Tokai / Ota

Ota Market 大田市場

Japan's largest wholesale market for fruit, vegetables and flowers, where you can watch the electronic flower auction and pallet-laden turret trucks from a public viewing route, minutes from Haneda.

About

While Toyosu gets the tuna, Ota Market quietly handles more produce and cut flowers than anywhere else in Japan, on a huge site at Tokai beside the bay. A visitor course on upper walkways lets anyone look down on the trading floors without booking: at dawn, the vegetable and fruit areas are a blur of turret trucks, and the flower division runs a fast machine-clock auction where buyers press buttons to bid on lots of chrysanthemums and roses. There is a small exhibition room in the administration building with a real turret truck, and a cluster of canteens serving market workers. It is a working wholesale market, so you cannot buy retail on most days, but it is a fascinating, crowd-free alternative to Toyosu.

Highlights

• Japan's largest wholesale market for produce and flowers
• Machine-clock flower auction viewable from walkways
• Turret trucks zipping across the trading floors at dawn
• Exhibition room with a real turret truck
• Market-worker canteens for an early breakfast

Tips

• Arrive by about 7:00 to see trading at its busiest
• Check the market calendar; it closes on Sundays, holidays and some Wednesdays
• Stay on the visitor route and out of the way of vehicles
• Pick up a course map at the administration building

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Nearby

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